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From: Damien Wyart <damien.wyart@free.fr>
To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	NetDev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e100_shutdown: netif_poll_disable hang
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 19:41:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slhh1s90.fsf@brouette.noos.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45393B0B.8090301@intel.com> (Auke Kok's message of "Fri\, 20 Oct 2006 14\:09\:31 -0700")

> > > My machine annoyingly hangs while rebooting. I tracked it down to
> > > e100-fix-reboot-f-with-netconsole-enabled.patch in 2.6.18-rc2-mm2
> > > I review the changes and it seemed to be calling
> > > netif_poll_disable one too many time. Once in e100_down(), and
> > > again in e100_shutdown().
> > > The second one in e100_shutdown() caused the hang. So this patch
> > > removes it.

* Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com> [061020 23:09]:
> it doesn't even do harm to netif_poll_disable() twice as far as I can
> see, as it merely calls test_and_set_bit(), which will instantly
> succeed on the first attempt if the bit was already set.

> did this change actually fix it for you? I'm wondering if the
> netif_carrier_off might not be the culprit here...

I can confirm the proposed original change of D. Walker fixed the
problem for me. I did not test the change you proposed as a followup.

-- 
Damien Wyart

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-21 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20061020182820.978932000@mvista.com>
2006-10-20 20:51 ` [PATCH] e100_shutdown: netif_poll_disable hang Auke Kok
2006-10-20 21:09   ` Auke Kok
2006-10-21 17:41     ` Damien Wyart [this message]
2006-10-21 17:54       ` Auke Kok
2006-10-21 20:55         ` Damien Wyart

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